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Party composition does not affect the intensity of cooperation between municipalities
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Friday, 10/29/2021
Inter-municipal cooperation is a widespread phenomenon that can take different forms in different countries. Pedro Camões and António Tavares, professors of the Department of Political Science and members of the Research Center in Political Science (CICP) of the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, and Filipe Teles, professor of the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and Pro-Rector of the University of Aveiro for regional development and city policy, developed a study on the intensity of cooperation of Portuguese Intermunicipal Communities (CIM).
The study seeks to measure the authentic commitment to inter-municipal cooperation by local elected representatives, analyzing factors other than those that drive and lead to the creation of these organisations. The authors state that "one thing is saying that you sign a contract or that you are part of an inter-municipal cooperation organisation, another thing is showing through actions that this organisation has the necessary means, both human and material, to perform the functions for which it was created and effectively produce something beneficial for the municipalities."
The study involves data from 25 Intermunicipal Communities (CIM) in Portugal between 2008-2018. Besides, it assesses the variation in the intensity of cooperation, measured in terms of commitment to expenditure, human resources, and public procurement. In the authors' view, "the volume of resources made available by municipalities to the CIM to which they belong is, at the outset, an indicator of greater commitment, and consequently of cooperation intensity." The researchers conclude that this is more intense when the number of partners is reduced, when they have a long history of cooperation, and when the CIMs are more homogeneous in terms of population and economic profile. Conversely, the intensity of collaboration does not seem to depend on the homogeneity of political preferences, that is, sharing of political colour.
The article can be found at
https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2020.1857245
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